Cathy,

If you're clicking the cell, it should be doing nothing but selecting the
cell. It will go into enter mode if you start typing stuff. It should
require double-clicking or pressing F2 to get it into Edit Mode. The
four-way arrow mouse pointer should happen when you've selected a cell(s)
and have the pointer at the border of the selection. I suspect the mouse
pointer is wandering around. It IS a laptop, after all, and mouse
positioning can be difficult.

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"Cathy C" wrote in message
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On our corporate laptop, sometimes when a worksheet cell is clicked, it
goes
into edit mode (which is what we want and expect), sometimes it jumps to
another cell, sometimes it turns into a white cross and then changes to a
four directional cross. Any thoughts on why this is happening and how to
make
it just go into edit mode?

Thanks much.